In Ukraine, some speak Russian, some Ukrainian. It is therefore not a real state, some claim. But what does togetherness have to do with a common language – and what doesn’t?
Last week was in Vienna default a interview with the media theorist Peter Weibel, in which he indicated that he had initiated the open letter to the German Federal Chancellor, which brought Alice Schwarzer and the other 27 first signatories a lot of encouragement, but also violent rejection and even public abuse. All of them cannot be indifferent to the fact that Weibel at least partially claims the idea and authorship of the letter for himself, since he downright disavowed their concern with crude theses. He contemptuously describes Ukraine as a “failed state” because, among other things, this failed state did not even come up with a “uniform language”.